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YuukiRey | 4 months ago

I find it a bit strange when people write about themselves in third person on their own website (see footer and about).

Anyway, the article seems very Amazon centric since I have no idea what an L6 or an L7 is. I get that they’re career ladder steps but that’s it.

And having testimonials about yourself on your own website…

The whole website feels like I clicked on an Ad for a person.

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imajoredinecon|4 months ago

If I’m understanding right, he has a side hustle as a public speaker. So the website is an ad for him.

akdev1l|4 months ago

L6 is a senior engineer - typically effecting change and setting direction within a development team (or small group of related teams)

L7 is a principal engineer - typically effecting change at org level which will impact many teams

brown9-2|4 months ago

Amazon skipping “staff” and jumping straight to “principal” seems like such title inflation

trenchpilgrim|4 months ago

Note that these are Amazon's definitions - at many companies L5 is Senior SWE and L6 is usually a lead or a step towards staff engineer.

sillythrowaway7|4 months ago

… wait until you see their HN submission history

xoac|4 months ago

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mattgreenrocks|4 months ago

Ha, this is true. I thought the post was quite useful beyond getting the author’s name out there.

It can get much more navel-gazing than this, such as the posts by 24yos who insist they finally figured out what life is about after working at a startup for 3 years. :)

astura|4 months ago

That's why I flagged it and encourage you to flag it too. Let's keep this self-aggrandizing slop off of HN.

justinhj|4 months ago

From the guidelines: Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.